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On Saturday 24 July 2004 22:12, Linda A. W. wrote:
I have an old laptop that my last install had involved using floppy images because the laptop is so old (*creak*) that it doesn't have a BIOS option capable of booting from the CDROM.
What I was wondering if there was any option in lilo or another boot loader that could include a PC driver for a standard CDROM (hdc) that would allow me to boot from it as a boot option directly from the boot prompt?
Reason being is I want to try upgrading it to 9.1 -- which, primitively enough, still requires booting from a CDROM or floppy to initiate.
It really would be nice if SuSE had an update option that could either do an update from a currently running system (followed by a reboot), or could start the reboot kernel directly from the running system.
I want to config the computer for a remote audio device, possibly...it might have the horse power for that....:-) Either that or as a "dumb terminal" or internet browser-only system.
Thanks for any pointers on the CDBOOT...
Surf to http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/9.1/boot/loader/ Download linux and initrd and be sure they are on a partition reachable by GRUB (e.g. /mnt/data1/suse-9.1-inst mounted from /dev/hda2. In /boot/grub/menu.lst, add the next 3 lines: title Install SuSE Linx 9.1 kernel (hd0,1)/suse-9.1-inst/linux vga=0x31A install=http://pub/suse/i3836/9.1 initrd (hd0,1)/suse-9.1-inst/initrd Save menu.lst and reboot. (vga=0x31A is 1280x1024 at 16bpp) Cheers, Leen